TO BLACKMAIL
28 / 09 / 2026
TO BLACKMAIL: meaning and examples
Welcome back to the Daily Vitamin, everyone. I hope you had a wonderful weekend.
This week we are going to do a brief series about vocabulary related to crime.
Today's word is: to blackmail (verb)
It means: to make someone give you money or to do what you want by threatening to tell people negative or embarrassing information about them.
Example 1: Someone was trying to blackmail him with pictures of him with his secret lover.
Example 2: That woman claims that she was blackmailed into helping the men with the robbery.
⇒ To get some writing practice, I encourage you to write your own sentence with today's crime word. You can post your sentence to one of our social media sites (Facebook or Bluesky) and we will give you feedback about your sentence ASAP.
Have a good day!
